prescription...

proper riding glasses at last

with prescription clip-on insert from
fat skeleton
I had an eye test, and contacted

cillary blue
they sent a box for the inserts and prescription 

and returned with new lens



now all I gotta do is get the bike back on the road...

always look on the bright side of life...

rear inlet seal loose

 rear exhaust seal fucked (well it was after removal)

 burnt valve and seat, hardly sealing for compression

so it wasn't the rings, but...

some scoring on piston and barrels, looks like I didn't get all those metal filings out of the new oil tank...

when you're chewing on life's gristle, 

don't grumble give a whistle...

when its windy and raining again...

 early shovel

 essential kit for the shoveleer

early scalextric

 holey twin leading shoe

 early gas pump

 early batmobile

 no, it's the 1929 golden arrow

 bluemobile

with a very large mouth

oh dear - part deux

Compression test

Luckily Pete called by, as this take two to do. 

Front good, Rear not good!

Improves when oil added and indicates rings

January reading!
Heads off today, but first going to check pushrod adjustment
then test valves by filling removed heads with petrol
and piston rings by filling cylinders with oil
old school tips from my friend Ray (the man with V8 trike)

oh dear

That leak is back on the front of the front head fins

but discovered it is travelling all the way from inlet rocker screw

pipes are covered in soot and plugs too

So I took out the air filter and went for a ride to Paul's house.

Where he showed me his fucked back tire. 

Then we noticed WHITE SMOKE coming from my rear pipe.

Fuck

This is what the plugs looked like after that short trip

Not good.

I've ordered some viton valve seals and special rocker seals from the states.

Heads off tomorrow. Fingers crossed.  

marmite and girls...

marmite bike?

girls

 

'marmite' because...

you either...

love it...

or hate it...

'Carousel'

Destiny Cycles gorgeous Pan / shovel

built by Vic Jefford


'marmite' credit to wade

Show time

We were on the road early, motorway cruising @ a steady sixty five.

The mind starts ticking over as there's fuck-all to do. 

So after looking at the speedo and counting the slow miles, 

you start to listen for odd noises... 

has something vibrated loose... 

is the oil circulating... 

start to think I hate fucking motorways, I want to shift my legs and... 

I FORGOT MY TICKETS!!!!!!

Fuck it, I'm not going back. 

And when we got there the ticket office were cool. 

Its not like I'm the only person in the world that forgets their tickets is it...

 Knuckle or S&S?

 Indian?

Shovel? - hmmmm

Exactly

seems it maybe the year of the shov

trumpet engineering

 Larry's engineering

with the new JAP engine

 still in vogue

 split head

fly by wire engineering

the Italian Knuck

 second city customs

big sucker shov

older engine based customs seemed prevalent at the show 

or maybe thats just my tunnel vision... haha  

bewley hooley

 man with perm and mate (with stockers mug) saturday 8am

 beaulieu custom show 10.30am

of course it is

 right on

 rocket bobs shov with new tank and guard

amen to that

 the devil is in the detail

 the man with the plan (lorne the organiser)

 double trouble

 beached boys

 lets go

 beached jivers

 nice

 two of the six or seven 'hot rods' at the 'festival'

 listen to the man

'sweet' as our cousins across the water say

 sickboyz pizza crew

 see the hand mate

Wow the tents are still there after the worst of all day hooley winds

 6am sunday - the sun - hooray no more winds

Sunday Home

Phew what a fucking hurricane weekend.

We really thought the tents would just not be there when we came back from the bar.

Paul had the adventure this time.

Almost home and he leaves the motorway (and me) and bang has a flat.

Still could it have been a bit different story at 70 mph.

Be careful on the M3, watched an unlucky VW transporter van dude get busted by an un-marked black range Rover Discovery.

some show pics to come